Big Labor's Quickie Election Gambit

The NLRB cuts the time companies can respond to union organizing.

Feb. 10, 2014 7:52 p.m. ET

The National Labor Relations Board has been one of the most active outposts of the Obama "unilateral presidency." It returned to the news last week with a proposal to speed up union elections. The board floated this rule once before. It failed. Take two is no better.

The idea first surfaced in 2011, after "card check" legislation to steamroll elections failed in Congress. The NLRB then went looking for other ways...